TY - GEN
T1 - Why are they hiding? Study of an anonymous file sharing system
AU - Cunche, Mathieu
AU - Ali Kaafar, Mohamed
AU - Chen, Jiefeng
AU - Boreli, Roksana
AU - Mahanti, Anirban
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This paper characterizes a recently proposed anonymous file sharing system, OneSwarm. This characterisation is based on measurement of several aspects of the OneSwarm system such as the nature of the shared and searched content and the geolocation and number of users. Our findings indicate that, as opposed to common belief, there is no significant difference in downloaded content between this system and the classical BitTorrent ecosystem. We also found that a majority of users appears to be located in countries where anti-piracy laws have been recently adopted and enforced (France, Sweden and U.S). Finally, we evaluate the level of privacy provided by OneSwarm, and show that, although the system has strong overall privacy, a collusion attack could potentially identify content providers.
AB - This paper characterizes a recently proposed anonymous file sharing system, OneSwarm. This characterisation is based on measurement of several aspects of the OneSwarm system such as the nature of the shared and searched content and the geolocation and number of users. Our findings indicate that, as opposed to common belief, there is no significant difference in downloaded content between this system and the classical BitTorrent ecosystem. We also found that a majority of users appears to be located in countries where anti-piracy laws have been recently adopted and enforced (France, Sweden and U.S). Finally, we evaluate the level of privacy provided by OneSwarm, and show that, although the system has strong overall privacy, a collusion attack could potentially identify content providers.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85088185895
U2 - 10.1109/estel.2012.6400205
DO - 10.1109/estel.2012.6400205
M3 - Conference proceeding contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85088185895
SN - 9781467346887
T3 - Proceedings - 2012 IEEE 1st AESS European Conference on Satellite Telecommunications, ESTEL 2012
BT - IEEE 1st AESS European Conference on Satellite Telecommunications, ESTEL 2012
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
CY - Piscataway
T2 - 2012 IEEE 1st AESS European Conference on Satellite Telecommunications, ESTEL 2012
Y2 - 2 October 2012 through 5 October 2012
ER -